Understanding Leadership

This course aims to develop the knowledge and understanding of leadership as required by a practising or potential first line manager.

Overview

Duration

Typically 4 to 10+ hours of Online or Classroom Based Training.

The module delivery is tailored to suit the companies needs.

Location

Online via Microsoft Teams/Zoom

location of participating company's

choosing.

Prior Knowledge

While no prior knowledge is required, the course is aimed at those who are currently working and who are managers or aspiring managers.

Certification

ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Certificate

Cost

This course is fully funded to those currently in employment under the Skills To Advance initiative.

Skills to Advance Initiative

This course is only available to those currently in employment and fully funded under the Skills to Advance initiative.

Skills to Advance is a national initiative that provides upskilling and reskilling opportunities to employees in jobs undergoing change and to those currently employed in vulnerable sectors. Skills to Advance aims to equip employees with the skills they need to progress in their current role or to adapt to the changing job market. Working closely with small and medium-sized enterprises, Skills to Advance helps employers identify skills needs and invest in their workforce by providing subsidised education and training to staff.

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May 2026

28 May 2026

Marine House, Wicklow

Module Content

Understand leadership styles

Describe the factors that will influence the choice of leadership styles or behaviours in workplace situations
Explain why these leadership styles or behaviours are likely to have a positive or negative effect on individual and group behaviour

Understand leadership qualities and review own leadership qualities and potential

Assess own leadership behaviours and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organisation’s working practices and culture, using feedback from others
Describe appropriate actions to enhance own leadership behaviour in the context of the particular leadership model

Indicative Content

Part 1:

The qualities of leadership
The leader – roles and responsibilities
Differences and similarities between leadership and management, and the need for each of them
Range of at least three leadership models (such as trait, contingency, situational, distributive, servant oblique leader, transactional/transformational) and their significance for task performance, culture and relationships
Leadership behaviours and the sources of power

Part 2:

Identification, development and appropriate choice of personal leadership styles and behaviours • The role of trust and respect in effective team leadership
Supervised practice or simulation to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills

Suite of ILM Programmes on offer by KWETB

Companies That Have Benefited From Training